Editing Jelly Babies (section)

==History==
"Jelly Babies" are known at least since advertisements by Riches Confectionery Company of 22 Duke Street, [[London Bridge]] in 1885, along with a variety of other baby sweets, including "Tiny Totties" and "[[Ally Sloper|Sloper]]’s  Babies".<ref>''[[Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper]]'', 23 March 1885.</ref> But the pricing of these, at one [[Farthing (British coin)|farthing]] each, suggests that they were very much larger than the modern Jelly Baby.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foodsofengland.info/jellybabies.html|title=Jelly Babies|website=Foods of England|access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>

The sweets were invented in 1864 by an Austrian immigrant working at ''Fryers of Lancashire'', and were originally marketed as "Unclaimed Babies".<ref name="Lancashire"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zlDkKCFmA2AC&dq=jelly+babies+unclaimed&pg=PA312 Sweets: The History of Temptation], Tim Richardson, Random House, 2002, {{ISBN|9780553814460}}.</ref> By 1918 they were produced by [[Bassett's]] in Sheffield as "Peace Babies", to mark the end of [[World War I]].<ref name="Lancashire"/> Bassett's themselves have supported the "Peace Babies" name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cadbury.com/ourbrands/otherfavouritebrands/candy/bassetts/Pages/Overview.aspx|title=Bassett's|date=22 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722115133/http://www.cadbury.com/ourbrands/otherfavouritebrands/candy/bassetts/Pages/Overview.aspx|archive-date=22 July 2008}}</ref> Production was suspended during [[World War II]] due to wartime shortages. The product was relaunched as "Jelly Babies" in 1953.<ref name="Lancashire"/>

A line of sweets called Jellyatrics was launched by Barnack Confectionery Ltd to commemorate the "Jelly Baby’s 80th Birthday" in March 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/world-news/jellyatrics-revive-those-sweet-memories-415459.html|work=Irish Independent|first=Nicole|last=Martin|title=Jellyatrics revive those sweet memories|date=18 March 1999|access-date=20 September 2020|archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403133641/https://www.independent.ie/world-news/jellyatrics-revive-those-sweet-memories-26156947.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Jellyatrics celebrate "all that is great and good about the older generation".<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet the Jellyatrics |url=http://jellyatrics.co.uk/meet-the-jellyatrics/ |website=Jellyatrics.co.uk |access-date=25 January 2021 |archive-date=20 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020051932/https://jellyatrics.co.uk/meet-the-jellyatrics/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>